What happened with free games in weekend?

[Sercom]

Before Steam usually gave one game to prove only in the weekend, now not. Why?

[tmwfte]

They still happen, just not every weekend.

[Sercom]

Diposting pertama kali oleh tmwfte:

They still happen, just not every weekend.

Long time ago Steam doesn't do it

[Spawn of Totoro]

http://www.techtimes.com/articles/152997/20160423/rocket-league-available-for-free-on-steam-this-weekend.htm

April had Rocket League. It doesn't happen every weekend or even most weekends.

[⛧EyMi Mayhem⛧]

free weekend is up to the devs/studios of the game(s), not steam.

[FFL2and3rocks]

You probably just didn't notice them because free weekend games no longer automatically appear in your library. People complained about "advertisements" popping up in their library, so now you just have to watch the main store page to notice when there's a free weekend.

[tmwfte]

Diposting pertama kali oleh Sercom:

Diposting pertama kali oleh tmwfte:

They still happen, just not every weekend.

Long time ago Steam doesn't do it

Not that long ago. Last free weekend was in June. http://store.steampowered.com/news/22402/

There was also a fairly sizable amount of time where Payday 2 was having a free play event over the Summer Sale.

[Sercom]

I 'm just saying that before giving free games on weekends more often, now is not as often.

[Satoru]

Diposting pertama kali oleh Sercom:

I 'm just saying that before giving free games on weekends more often, now is not as often.

Please provide data for 'more' often. Note "I think so" is not actual data

[wuddih]

Diposting pertama kali oleh Sercom:

I 'm just saying that before giving free games on weekends more often, now is not as often.

i have not seen a single free weekend from 2003-2012.

last weekend and currently still running for the next two hours a game named Atlas Reactor was/is play for free.

and you know that the games are just available to play for you that specific weekend, right? you do not keep those games.

to clarify, "Steam" does not decide those free weekends, the publisher/developer of the game does.

[Sercom]

Diposting pertama kali oleh wuddih:

Diposting pertama kali oleh Sercom:

I 'm just saying that before giving free games on weekends more often, now is not as often.

i have not seen a single free weekend from 2003-2012.

last weekend and currently still running for the next two hours a game named Atlas Reactor was/is play for free.

and you know that the games are just available to play for you that specific weekend, right? you do not keep those games.

to clarify, "Steam" does not decide those free weekends, the publisher/developer of the game does.

I know that games are only free on specifics weekends, but long time ago I don't see free games on weekends

[MancSoulja]

Diposting pertama kali oleh Sercom:

Before Steam usually gave one game to prove only in the weekend, now not. Why?

Humble Bundle do free weekends now too! They did Civ: Beyond Earth last weekend.

https://www.humblebundle.com/store/promo/civilizationbeyondearthfreeweekend/

[Memes]

The free weekend games is not in library. You have to go to stores and look to the right for a second small-mid size rectangle box.

[The Rock God]

Diposting pertama kali oleh Memes Are Moist:

The free weekend games is not in library. You have to go to stores and look to the right for a second small-mid size rectangle box.

This is probably why he thinks there used to be more free weekends in the past. They used to show up in the library automatically, but so many people complained about the "unwanted game" showing up that they stopped doing it.

[Count Grishnackh (Cyber)]

Diposting pertama kali oleh The Rock God:

Diposting pertama kali oleh Memes Are Moist:

The free weekend games is not in library. You have to go to stores and look to the right for a second small-mid size rectangle box.

This is probably why he thinks there used to be more free weekends in the past. They used to show up in the library automatically, but so many people complained about the "unwanted game" showing up that they stopped doing it.

I compleltly forgot about the free game weeekend things.

[Pidon]

thnks meme guy